# NousResearch/hermes-agent · Slash worker skill routing drops prompt silently

## Open now

- Nothing open on GitHub.

These items concern a bug where skill slash commands routed through the slash worker silently discard the user's prompt after printing a loading banner, and related fixes to prevent the slash worker from incorrectly handling or acknowledging skill invocations.

## TL;DR

- 3 member(s): 0 open issue(s), 1 closed issue(s), 0 open PR(s), 1 merged PR(s), 1 PR(s) closed without merging.
- A fix was merged to main in PR #121376. Verify it addresses your case.
- **Recommended:** read PR #121376 (and any competing PRs below) before filing. Confirm the merged change covers your symptom.

## Maintainer resolution verdict

- Internal-tracker verdict over this cluster's issue members: `resolved` · deciding PR(s): `pr-121376`. This is distinct from the fix status above. Weigh it yourself.

## How this cluster was grouped

- Link evidence (`STRUCTURAL_SPANNING`): every member is connected by structural evidence: shared changed files, or a closing/superseded reference.
- Pairwise link density `0.67`: the share of member pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. `1.00` means every pair is linked.

## Closed / duplicate issues

- #107387: \[bug\] Skill slash commands silently drop the prompt when routed to the slash worker — "⚡ Loading skill: <name>" prints, nothing happens

## Prior & competing PRs

- **#121376: fix(tui): do not ok-reply a skill banner from the slash worker**. merged to main · fix tier `verified`
  - maintainer direction: category `merged`
  - files: `scripts/ci/profile_scope_patterns.json`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_protocol.py`, `tests/tui_gateway/test_slash_worker_skill_refuse.py`, `tui_gateway/methods_tools.py`, `tui_gateway/slash_worker.py`
- **#107470: fix(tui): refuse slash-worker skill orphans so clients dispatch**. closed without merge
  - maintainer direction: category `superseded_by_pr`; implication `superseded`; refs `#121376`, `#107387`

## Fix status

- Merged to main in PR #121376 (cited above). No release data is tracked. Verify downstream.
- Fix last verified (merged) `2026-09-26`.